Oldoldoldoldoldoldoldoldold. We are all old now. We are all old now together. Also: old.
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JOB Blew off R.E.M and Natalie for what? I have to know. I would have went to that concert.
I think it was the Life’s Rich Pageant tour – I don’t recall 10K Maniacs being part of the deal, but my faulty memory is more at fault there. It was one of their last “college venues” – less than 5,000 souls – but I was working on a paper for a class at Rutgers at the time, and sought to really do well – fool me – now I deal in leaky basements…
JOB
Hilariously enough, it was named the Work Tour.
It’s the Brown Thrasher.
I fall upon the thorns of life….I bleed!
JOB
do you have that picture? Really?
I’d call your bluff, but I know better.
JOB
Nah, I kid. It was, you may recall, taken in the days before digital cameras. The only way to get it would be to steal it or find the negative. I’m not quite vile enough for the former, and much to lazy for the latter.
Sloth, Caution
Líckoná, áre you stáring
On this grizzled head unhairing?
A common vista we’d be sharing
But for this curly wig I’m wearing.
Still, ’round your ear, a ringlet hoary
Insinuates ‘memento mori’.
The narrowed gap twixt us and them
An endless sleep, sans REM
The lightless nightmare man is doomed to
HE cried who stood by Lazarus’ tomb, too
Ah! ás the hair grows rarer
You will see your pate grow barer
Bit by bit, nor spare a fit
Though scores of hoarlocks floorward flit;
And yet you will shrug and moan ‘sh–‘.
Those that once waxed thick as thieves
Thín and fáll líke autumn leaves.
That photograph, this combox post
Says what Stipe knows, and Hopkins’ ghost:
A gróup is doomed when once assembled,
Korrektiv’s breakup makes you tremble.
And she sings Ogden Nash! Thanks much for this.
Cubeland Mystic, thank you! I like what this Merchant is selling.
You’me removed my comment and inserted many pretentious ones of your own. Some are older than others, even if they don’t act that way.
Sorry, that was a different post. Excellent Hopkins reference.
I for one have never removed a Churchill comment.
I would sooner remove Mona Lisa from the Louvre.
JOB
What post? What was your comment? Maybe if you tell us in Pig Latin, the authorities won’t catch on.
Thanks.